ULTRA-FOLKSY SARAH PALIN BRINGS CPAC AUDIENCE TO ITS FEET

Palins speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference started in an unconventional way: After she was first introduced, the crowd was shocked to see Texas Sen. Ted Cruz walk out onstage. Cruz said he was there to introduce Palin himself ahead of his keynote speech later in the afternoon.

The mainstream media wants us to be timid and hide in a corner. And the mainstream media is absolutely convinced that women cannot be conservatives, and if they are, they especially cannot shoot really big guns and hunt grizzly bears, Cruz said. Thats why Governor Sarah Palin drives the mainstream media batcrap crazy.

Cruz directly attributed his success to Palin, a key backer of his, saying: I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Sarah Palin.

When Palin herself entered, the entire crowd surged for the first of many times. Palin waved energetically as she was welcomed, then immediately thanked Cruz.

The senator is the keynote speaker and he would lower himself to do an introduction for a hockey mom from Wasilla, Palin said in faux-wonder. Ted Cruz, he chews barbed wire, he spits out rust. Thats what we need.

But Palin herself seemed to be in a chewing out mood, as well. She started off with the presidents recent attempts to restrict gun owner rights.

That chunk of metal did the crime? Thats like saying, that fork made me fat, Palin joked about the idea that guns are responsible for violence. Background checks? Dandy idea, Mr. President. Shouldve started with yours.

Palin wasnt close to finished. She moved on to attack the calls for rebranding of the Republican Party.

Lets be clear about one thing: Were not here to rebrand the party. Were here to rebuild a country, Palin said. Were not here to dedicate ourselves to new talking points coming from DC. Were not here to put a fresh coat of rhetorical point on our party Were here to restore America, and the rest is just theatrics. The rest is sound and fury. Its just noise. And that sums up the job President Obama does today.

At one point, Palin reached under the podium and pulled out a Big Gulp and began drinking from it onstage. The action itself bringing large sections of the crowd to its feet.

But the bulk of Palins speech was devoted to blasting the Washington and GOP establishment, including a not-so-veiled jab at Republican architect strategist Karl Rove.

If you dont have a team of lobbyists in D.C. or a canceled contribution check, well, youre not at the table. Youre on the menu, she said. The last thing we need is Washington, D.C. vetting our candidates If we had one message to send to Washington, it would be this: Get over yourself. Its not about you.

But when Palin left the stage, for those few moments, it was all about her, leaving the audience roaring on its feet for several minutes straight.

When my senator introduced Sarah it still brings tears to my eyes. She is still the biggest brightest star the conservatives have, God bless her and I’ll help 2cd Division Vet raise that money he speaks about.

“Ultra Folksy” What the hell does that mean? Can you call her an Ultra American!” This sounds like you are calling her a “hillbilly” or “redneck” but, ultra folksy? Really, you certainly could have titled this a different way than sounding like a northern liberal writing another hit piece on Sarah Palin.

She is loved by most relevant Americans!

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posted on 03/16/2013 11:57:17 AM PDT
by PotatoChop
(Respect is earned, not demanded by this out of control socialist government!)

Governor Sarah Palin is great. We, the Conservatives, can win with our principles intact, and get our country back. I know it will be hard and take time. The enemy is entrenched and empowered. Some give council of despair, but despair is the council of the Devil. Whip it on, Sarah!! TWB

We collectively need to embrace each and every thing the MSM and the naysayers bitch about. Other than the fact it makes them batXhit crazy, the simple fact is that most people not only like but WANT a simple approach. Their lives are complicated enough as it is without ‘nuanced’ approaches to everything up to and including happy meals.

Full of great quotes.
One I would have given her:
“The biggest problem with Congress and a huge majority of
elected officals at all levels, except for a handful of true Conservatives and Independents, is that they can’t imagine the world of politics without them”.

Sarah haters CANNOT simply help themselves. They are like the commies, lefties, socialists that absolutely MUST respond.....to a little gal from Alaska whom is deemed “irrelevant". But yet, lives inside their heads 24/7....hehehe.

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posted on 03/16/2013 12:24:19 PM PDT
by NoGrayZone
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)

Great speech. Spanked Obama, the GOPe, the DC elite and Karl Rove. Loved the BIG GULP and the rack and rifle double entendre comment. This was grass roots kitchen table conversational discussion talk about the stark contrast between the founding documents theme phrase of the people, by the people, for the people vs. the cynical, devisive and destructive nature of identity politics being practiced by BOTH parties and yet, only mastered by one party. No teleprompter, no Rovian white board lecture, no scripting to market branding talking points- just from the heart. Class act on Ted Cruz's part too.

I fully expect her to be the target of ridicule starting tomorow with the Sunday DC round table punditry and throughout the week from the usual mindless cable and network news bobbleheads.

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posted on 03/16/2013 12:24:48 PM PDT
by TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)

God bless we have the likes of Sarah. She is the real spirit of America and hopefully this spirit will somehow hit the GOP. We do have a few Republicans that are conservative Constitutional driven. And we must make sure that we all call King Obama for what he is, a communists black Muslim and his only effort is to destroy America. We have many good black gentlemen and women and pray that they realize what King Obama has done and work to overthrow this tyrant.

When you look at what has been done to education, that is the direct result. Years ago Kruschev said ‘we won’t get you, but we’ll get your children’...and the communists kicked their academia effort into overdrive. Today we have a ‘whirled’ filled with people with no sense of history and no ability to think critically.

By design.

It’s been said repeatedly but the genpub just can’t grasp it for the reasons above. the Left uses 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as how to manuals. And in those books, the public were those sheep who were spoken AT. It was all they knew because that’s all there was TO KNOW.

Palin has the ability to speak plainly and despite the best efforts of the left, we are not so totally gone that we recognize the kernels of what she’s getting at. Almost but not quite totally gone. That’s a problem for the left.

I have had hundreds of fights on FR with the PDS crowd who claim we Palinistas are all idol worshiping cultists. But the bottom line is that it’s Palin’s message, not she herself that causes such strong reactions. For us it’s the reaction of identifying with a kindred soul who shares our beliefs and has the will and the megaphone to spread them. It could just as easily be Joe Jones off the street. The ideas are what matters.

But some people are very much threatened by those ideas...dangerous things that they are. So one does not have to stretch their imaginations very far to understand why the PDSers and the MSNBCs of the world share their own common cause and ‘values. It’s because they are the same people.

With this timely reminder from Sarah Palin that conservative principles are as relevant and needed as any time before, one takes heart that perhaps, America is not yet ‘lost’ to leftist politics and all the negative, destructive elements it brings with it. Ted Cruz is also inspiring and gives one a glimmer of hope for the future of the GOP. Its now clear that the Roves and Kristols are steering the Republican party into the shoals of failure as it is subsumed by liberal policies slightly altered with the GOP brand. This way lies the party’s destruction. Palin and Cruz represent the future of the GOP. If they do not - and the nitpickers and whiners will always be with us - not only the party but, ultimately, the nation and our way of life are doomed as they cannot survive the depredations of liberal policies carried to their inevitable conclusion.

"I hope you do read it because you obviously couldn't hear her through your own inner Bitching going through your Mind when she was talking. "

It may surprise you but I had high hopes for her among the other palookas during the debates. But she took off and gives just gasbag cheerleader speeches. Sorry I expected more. I will read it, however low it sets the bar.

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